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Privacy Protection

We give high priority to protecting your personal data during its collection, processing and use in connection with your visit to our web site.

We collect and use your personal data only within the framework of the data protection provisions of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the following, we would like to inform you about the type, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data. You can call up this information at any time on our web site.

Data Transmission and Protocolling
for System-Internal and Statistical Purposes
During access to our web site, for technical reasons, your Internet browser automatically transfers data to our web server. These data include, among others, the date and time of access, the URL of the referring web page, the called up file, the quantity of data transmitted, the browser type and version, the operating system as well as your IP address. These data are stored separately from other data that you enter while using our web site offering. We cannot assign this data to a particular person.
We only collect additional personal data if you voluntarily enter this information, for example, in connection with a request or registration.

Use and Disclosure of Personal Data
Insofar as you provide personal data to us, we will use this information only to reply to your queries, to implement agreements that have been concluded with you and for technical administration.
We will only disclose or otherwise transmit your personal data to third parties if this is required to fulfill the purpose of implementing an agreement, for invoicing purposes or if you have previously agreed to such disclosures. You have the right to revoke at any time an approval that you previously made; such revocation shall become effective for the future.
We will delete your stored personal data if you revoke your approval for data storage, if knowledge of such data is no longer required to fulfill the purpose of such data storage, and if such storage of your personal data should be impermissible for other legal reasons.

Customer Master Data
Insofar as a contractual relationship is to be established between you and us, or provisions of such an agreement are to be specified or changed, we will collect and use your personal data to the extent that this is required to fulfill these purposes.
In individual cases and upon order of the responsible authorities, we shall be permitted to provide information about such data (customer master data) insofar as this is required for the purposes of criminal prosecution, averting of danger, fulfillment of the statutory tasks of German domestic security authorities (Verfassungsschutz) and the German Military Counterintelligence Service (Militärischer Abschirmdienst) as well as to enforce rights to intellectual property.

Cookies
We use so-called “cookies” to expand the functional scope of our Internet offering and to make it more user-friendly for you. These “cookies” are used to store data on your computer during your call-up of our web site. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your computer by making the corresponding settings in your browser. However, this may limit the functional scope of our Internet offering.

Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Right to Information
As a user of our Internet offering, you are entitled to request information from us about the data stored in connection with your personal identity or pseudonym. If you so request, we may also provide this information electronically.